Tag: hazard rd
member name: Roy ☯ Hilbinger
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September 28, 2007 09:45 PM EDT --
On my weekly walk through Ballard Park and around Gooseneck Cove today I noticed that the fall Asters are out in force, so I thought I'd share them with you.
First we have some Swamp Asters, also . . .
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November 02, 2007 04:50 PM EDT --
So I was out on my usual hike today, down to Ballard Park, then down Hazard Rd. to Gooseneck Cove. then over to the "country lane" loop. not much wildlife because the wind is up today and they're . . .
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December 06, 2007 04:34 PM EST --
The leaves have fallen from the trees, the temperatures have dropped, even the quality of daylight has changed. Winter is arriving, affecting the places I love best - Ballard Park and Gooseneck Cove. . . .
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January 08, 2008 06:38 PM EST --
On today's hike I bumped into some fellow birders down on Hazard Rd. by Gooseneck Cove. One of them regularly comes to feed the ducks cracked corn in the winter, so when they see his car they come . . .
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October 21, 2008 05:45 PM EDT --
Autumn colors are finally making their appearance here in Newport, where the ocean environment makes our Fall color season a little later and less vibrant than in inland New England. But at least the Maples . . .
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December 28, 2008 05:29 PM EST --
Add together these ingredients: the New England seacoast, still with some remnants of a snowstorm (snow piles) and cold weather (ice on standing water), overtaken by warm, wet air. The result: a fog so . . .
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April 19, 2009 11:12 PM EDT --
Well, the Winter flocks have pretty much moved on; there are just a few Mallards and Canada Geese left who usually stay here year round. But the Pintails and the Teal and the Mergansers and the Grebes . . .
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November 01, 2008 07:30 PM EDT --
This was a good day for birding on Gooseneck Cove. My buddy Jack Kelly showed up not long after I'd gotten down there on Hazard Rd. I had been down the farther end of the road when I saw a Great Blue . . .
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January 10, 2009 10:30 PM EST --
It's been chilly lately - overnight lows in the tweties and daytime highs only in the low thirties. So I wasn't surprised to come down Hazard Rd. today to find the entire upper Gooseneck Cove . . .
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November 01, 2008 07:00 PM EDT --
The Wheel turns,
the year wanes;
the Dark Half of the year
appears on the stage.
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December 20, 2008 06:16 PM EST --
We finally got a good snow storm, and just a couple of days before the Winter Solstice. Timing is everything! I went for a walk to see the sights in my spiritual home in Ballard Park and Gooseneck Cove. . . .
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September 20, 2009 04:49 PM EDT --
The day started at 8 am with a trip out to the Norman Bird Sanctuary for their every-other-Sunday bird walk. It was a long walk today, out the entrance and down Third Beach Rd. to the salt marsh behind . . .
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October 25, 2009 07:10 PM EDT --
Down on Gooseneck Cove Fall colors are reflecting in the water and lighting the place up. I managed to get some pictures of that today, as well as the multicolored leaves on one of the trails in Ballard . . .
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April 20, 2008 05:17 PM EDT --
This week's Sunday stroll took me back down to Ballard Park and Gooseneck Cove. Spring is a little more evident this week, as you'll see. There's more green, the birds are more active, and . . .
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November 22, 2008 04:51 PM EST --
It's been cold here for a bit; the high temperatures haven't made it out of the 30s since the beginning of the week. Today I went down to Ballard Park and Gooseneck Cove to see if the waters had . . .
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November 14, 2007 08:33 PM EST --
Two days off in a row! This is a rare event in my job. Since tomorrow is supposed to be rainy, I went for my weekly hike today. It started out sunny but quickly turned overcast, raw, and blustery. It's . . .
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April 30, 2008 08:03 PM EDT --
Electronic music pioneer Wendy Carlos always likes to cite her "First Law" in interviews: "Every parameter you can control, you must control." I once made a sign with that and taped . . .
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November 30, 2008 06:02 PM EST --
I went walking today. Along the way it started to sleet, and a little later the sleet mixed with and then turned to rain.
Sleet on the trails in Ballard Park:
November buds in Ballard Park:
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January 19, 2009 08:25 PM EST --
Fresh snow overnight - unexpected, not forecast - pulled me out the door and down the road this morning, camera in hand. I had no say in the matter, I merely lifted my feet and let the inevitable tide . . .
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August 31, 2008 09:31 PM EDT --
I gave myself a task today as I started out on my Sunday hike. I'd go to all my favorite places and take the usual photographs of the usual subjects, but this time it would all be in black and white . . .
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